Rio de Janeiro
January 1, 2014
People react to the fireworks at the new year’s celebration at Copacabana Beach in Brazil.
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Kiev, Ukraine
January 25, 2014
An anti-government protester throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with police on Hrushevskoho Street near Dynamo Stadium. After two months of primarily peaceful demonstrations in the city center, new laws meant to end the protest movement sparked violent clashes.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
January 31, 2014
The body of Christopher Rivera, who was shot to death, is propped up in a fake boxing ring during his wake at the community recreation center within the public housing project where he lived. A funeral director explained that the boxer had asked his family that if he died, he wanted his funeral to make reference to his boxing career.
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Kiev, Ukraine
February 18, 2014
An anti-government protester is engulfed in flames during clashes with riot police outside parliament.
Ahmedabad, India
January 16, 2014
Students pour water on each other as they take a holy bath on the occasion of Magh Purnima. The ceremony was organized to resemble the annual monthlong religious festival held during the Hindu month of Magh, when thousands of Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the waters of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.
Flensburg, Germany
February 19, 2014
Nasar, an Arabian horse, stands in the living room of Dr. Stephanie Arndt at her home. Fearing for the horse's safety, Arndt brought the horse into her house during a heavy storm in December, and the horse continued to wander through the house daily, inspecting details and looking for snacks. Arndt says she doesn't mind, and though the horse never spends the night, it does occasionally take a nap in the house.
Holot, Israel
February 17, 2014
Asylum seekers take part in a day of protest at a detention center where hundreds of migrants are being held in the southern Negev Desert of Israel. More than 50,000 African migrants are seeking asylum after escaping war and repression in their native lands.
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Hargeysa, Somalia
February 19, 2014
Amran Mahamood, who has made a living for 15 years by circumcising young girls, looks into a piece of a mirror. The centuries old tradition of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation, is on the decline in northern Somalia, though it continues to have some of the highest rates of women who have undergone the practice in the world.
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Islay, Scotland
March 11, 2014
Scottish country dancer Mairie McGillivray, 16, dances on the beach at Bridgend as she poses for a photograph on the Hebridean island.
Guwahati, India
March 17, 2014
Indian revellers cover each other with colored powder and dance while taking part in Holi festival celebrations. Holi is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India and Nepal at the end of winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month.
Cipacing, Indonesia
March 4, 2014
The son of the owner of an air-rifle shop walks past a display near dozens of other small air rifle workshops. The small village is known for its gunsmiths who, despite smaller sales due to competition from big international factories, still make thousands of air rifles annually, with most of them made in small back garden operations.
Vatican City
March 27, 2014
President Barack Obama laughs during his first meeting with Pope Francis, as Monsignor Mark Miles looks on.
Southern Indian Ocean
March 31, 2014
The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion maritime search aircraft can be seen on low-level clouds as it flies looking for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
St. Moritz, Switzerland
March 9, 2014
An aerial view shows cross-country skiers climbing a hill during the 46th Engadin Ski Marathon near the Swiss mountain resort.
Kabul, Afghanistan
March 27, 2014
Abuzar, the son of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmed, who was killed with his wife and two children during an attack by gunmen at Serena Hotel, is comforted by his grandmother at the Emergency hospital. The 2-year-old, his head heavily bandaged, emerged from a coma, and the sight of him chuckling during hospital visits from his aunt gave doctors hope he could make a full recovery.
Perevalnoe, Ukraine
March 5, 2014
Local women watch armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, assemble near a Ukrainian military base.
Slaviansk, Ukraine
April 17, 2014
A boy with a toy gun poses for a picture in front of barricades at the police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian town.
Kramatorsk, Ukraine
April 16, 2014
A fighter jet flies above as Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armored personnel carrier.
Baghdad, Iraq
April 25, 2014
An explosion is seen during a car bomb attack at a Shiite political organization's rally. A series of blasts killed 18 people.
Blenheim, New Zealand
April 10, 2014
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge watches her husband, Prince William, sit in the cockpit of a Sopwith Pup at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre. The prince and his wife made a 19-day official visit to New Zealand and Australia with their son, George.
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Seville, Spain
April 14, 2014
A woman and a boy look from a window as a penitent of the San Gonzalo brotherhood walks past them during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
Istanbul
May 3, 2014
Men carry balloons near the sea at Kadikoy.
Shanghai
May 21, 2014
Afghan President Hamid Karzai walks away after shaking hands with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, before the opening ceremony in the Expo Center during the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit.
Robertsganj, India
May 10, 2014
Supporters of BJP leader Narendra Modi run as a helicopter carrying the then-candidate takes off.
Kevin Frayer
New York City
May 15, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks during the opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum.
Chennai, India
June 29, 2014
Rescue workers conduct a search operation for survivors at the site of a collapsed 11-story building that was under construction on the outskirts of the southern Indian city.
Dover, Delaware
June 21, 2014
Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots performs during Day 3 of the Firefly Music Festival.
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Amritsar, India
June 6, 2014
Sikhs wield swords during their clash inside the complex of the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple. Sikhs wielding swords clashed inside the compound of their religion's holiest shrine on the 30th anniversary of a controversial raid by Indian security forces that flushed out separatist militants holed up in the temple.
Kirkuk, Iraq
June 21, 2014
Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern town of Taza Khormato, close to locations of jihadi ISIS fighters.
Mosul, Iraq
June 12, 2014
A Iraqi girl fleeing the city arrives at a Kuridish checkpoint, after ISIS captured major roads in central Iraq.
Rio de Janeiro
June 8, 2014
A young boy plays football at sunset.
Fortaleza, Brazil
June 14, 2014
Costa Rica's Joel Campbell (L) is fouled by Uruguay's Maximiliano Pereira (back) next to teammate Cristian Rodriguez during their 2014 World Cup Group D soccer match at the Castelao arena. Pereira was issued a red card for the foul.
Melbourne, Australia
June 24, 2014
A surfer jumps off a pier into Port Phillip Bay to take advantage of the waves as a storm lashes the coast.
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Istanbul
June 8, 2014
Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish riot police during a demonstration after a man was killed during clashes with Turkish soldiers the night before in Lice, in southeastern Turkey.
New York City
June 2, 2014
Singer Rihanna arrives for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at Lincoln Center.
Moscow
June 22, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941 near memorials by the Kremlin walls.
Suining, China
July 25, 2014
A child sleeps on an inflatable duck in a water park during a heat wave in Sichuan province.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
July 17, 2014
An Afghan resident points his weapon at the dead body of an unidentified militant, as a way of showing his hatred for insurgents, at a building where three other militants were located at, after an attack. Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked Kabul International Airport in one of the most audacious assaults on the facility, used by both civilians and the military, in a year.
Grabovo, Ukraine
July 17, 2014
Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shown smoldering in a field near the Russian border. MH17, on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and carrying 295 passengers and crew, is believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The area is under control of pro-Russian militias.
Rozsypne, Ukraine
July 18, 2014
A rose lies on a plastic sheet covering a victim of a Malaysia Airlines airliner that was downed.
Gaza City, Palestine
July 15, 2014
Smoke from rockets is seen after being launched toward Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry warned of the "great risks" that the violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip could spiral out of control.
Gaza Strip, Palestine
July 24, 2014
A Palestinian man holds a girl, whom medics said was injured in an Israeli shelling at a UN-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, at a hospital.
Jerusalem
August 4, 2014
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys climb down a wall near the scene of a suspected attack.
Sinjar Town, Syria
August 11, 2014
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to ISIS, walk toward the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain.
Ferguson, Missouri
August 11, 2014
A man backs away as law-enforcement officials close in on him and eventually detain him during protests over the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager killed by a police officer.
Monrovia, Liberia
August 21, 2014
A man lies under a car after being put there in detention by the Liberian army on the second day of the government's Ebola quarantine on the neighborhood of West Point. An army officer said that he was showing symptoms of Ebola and was caught trying to escape from West Point.
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Rafah, Palestine
August 2, 2014
An injured Palestinian boy is taken to al-Kuwaiti hospital after the evacuation of Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital.
Dohuk, Iraq
August 4, 2014
Thousands of Iraqis flee the town of Sinjar, near the city of Mosul, to Erbil and Dohuk after armed groups affiliated with ISIS seized the town.
Guangdong, China
August 17, 2014
Newborn giant panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao (not pictured), are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park. According to local media, the birth is seen as a miracle due to the low reproduction rate of giant pandas.
Pyongyang, North Korea
August 6, 2014
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles during a visit to the Chonji Lubricant Factory.
Sanliurfa, Turkey
October 20, 2014
An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of ISIS on a People's Protection Unit position in the city center, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border.
Monrovia, Liberia
September 15, 2014
The glow from a crematorium fire lights up the night sky where bodies of people who died from the Ebola virus are cremated. The crematorium was built by the Indian embassy but has now been transformed to cremate as many as 120 people at a time because of the crisis.
Suruc, Turkey
September 29, 2014
Syrian Kurds arrive at the border between Syria and Turkey after several mortars hit both sides of their town. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey fleeing an onslaught by ISIS that prompted an appeal for international intervention.
Vevey, Switzerland
October 17, 2014
A giant fork designed by Switzerland's artist Jean-Pierre Zaugg to commemorate Nestle's Alimentarium Food Museum 10th anniversary.
Havana, Cuba
September 29, 2014
Children practice at a circus school. Inside an abandoned movie theater on a noisy avenue, some 70 Cuban children as young as age 9 pursue their dream of joining the circus.
Milford, Pennsylvania
October 31, 2014
Eric Frein arrives for arraignment to court. The suspected cop killer was captured at a Pennsylvania airport hangar after a seven-week manhunt.
Sanliurfa, Turkey
October 8, 2014
Turkish army forces tightened security measures at a border province as the clashes between ISIS and Kurdish armed groups continue in Ayn al-Arab city, north of Syria.
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Nanjing, China
October 1, 2014
Thousands of armed police salute China's national flag.
New York City
November 12, 2014
A scaffold carrying two window washers hangs 69 floors up at One World Trade Center.
Moscow
November 7, 2014
Wearing the World War II-era uniform of the Red Army troops, Russian soldiers take part in the military parade on Red Square. Russia marked the 73rd anniversary of Red Army soldiers’ march to the front line from Red Square, when Nazi German troops were just a few kilometers from Moscow.
Cairo
November 17, 2014
A student at Cairo University lights a flare during an anti-coup protest.
Paris
November 12, 2014
(L-R) French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, National Centre for Space Studies President Jean-Yves Le Gall, French President Francois Hollande and former French astronaut and minister Claudie Haignere wear 3-D glasses to view the first results of the Rosetta mission on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet at the Cite des Sciences. A European probe made the first-ever landing on a comet in a quest to explore the origins of the solar system.
Ferguson, Missouri
October 13, 2014
Activist Cornel West is knocked over during a scuffle with police during a protest at the Ferguson Police Department. Hundreds of protesters converged in the pouring rain as they launched another day of demonstrations over the August killing by police of an unarmed black 18-year-old.
Ferguson, Missouri
November 25, 2014
A firefighter surveys the rubble at a strip mall that was set on fire when rioting erupted following the grand jury announcement in the Michael Brown case. Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, on August 9. At least 12 buildings were torched and more than 50 people were arrested during the night-long rioting.
Solikamsk, Russia
November 20, 2014
General view of soil failure 30x40 meters in Solikamsk. The soil failure was formed in the evening of November 18 in Kluchik settlement, which was left by people in 2005 when ground level dropped several meters.
London
November 13, 2014
The world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, greets the tallest living man, Sultan Kosen, to mark Guinness World Records Day. Kosen measuring 8 foot 3 inches towers over Dangi, who is only 21.5 inches tall.
Tonosho, Japan
December 2, 2014
Japanese macaques huddle at "Osaru no Kuni" (Monkey's land) of Shodo Island. "Sarudango" (dumplings of monkeys) is a popular attraction for visitors. About 500 wild Japanese macaques reside in the nature preserve and are fed by the protected area's staff members.
Peshawar, Pakistan
December 16, 2014
Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School. At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed.
